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Improving the rider’s jumping position: part 3

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How to control and frame your horse approaching and landing fences by improving your position.

3 videos - Total time : 18 mn

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Intermédiaire

Goal:

During the preliminary flat work session, Alice was able to get in control of her horse thanks to Michel's advice.

However, her horse, Pharaon, still has a lot of energy, and gets excited around jumps. This kind of behaviour is most of the time reinforced by the rider’s physical and mind sets. The goal of this session is to channel this overflow of energy by riding with a position close to what Michel calls the perfect position. Michel noticed that Alice has a good position approaching fences but gets unbalanced over the fence: her hips move backwards and her legs forward…which results into a loss of control on landing. Michel will give her some tips that will help her maintain a good position before, over and after the jump.

Progress:

The jumping session starts with a set of cavalettis. Alice has to keep focusing on her position even if it means to let her horse speeding up for now. The priority is for the rider to be able to follow the movement over the jump without getting off balance nor interfering with her horse’s movement.

The next exercise targets Alice’s position during the landing phase. It will help her absorb the jump using the motion of her joints -hips, knees, ankles.

Michel stresses the importance for the rider to stay as symmetrical as possible on either side of her horse’s axis. The right side stays to the right of the horse, and the left side to his left.

The session ends with jumping different profiles of natural fences: a bank, few verticals made with some logs. Once again, Alice has to stay focused on her position in order to be ready to cope with any situation.

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intermediate position

approaching a fence

straightness

landing

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How to control and frame your horse approaching and landing fences by improving your position.

3 videos - Total time : 18 mn

Niveau de difficulté:

Intermédiaire

Goal:

Progress:

Michel stresses the importance for the rider to stay as symmetrical as possible on either side of her horse’s axis. The right side stays to the right of the horse, and the left side to his left.

Théma:

Work sessions

Keywords:

REF HA39

Rider’s position

intermediate position

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Improving the rider’s jumping position: part 2

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Abonné

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Résumé listing:

How to control and frame your horse approaching and landing fences by improving your position.

Niveau de difficulté:

Intermédiaire

Goal:

Progress:

Michel stresses the importance for the rider to stay as symmetrical as possible on either side of her horse’s axis. The right side stays to the right of the horse, and the left side to his left.

Théma:

Keywords:

intermediate position

approaching a fence

straightness

landing

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Calm and serenity on the approach and landing fences

The wide angle view

Improve the jumping trajectory and the control in the approach

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How to use the strength and muscular power of the horse

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Abonné

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It is necessary for one’s horse to be straight so it can use all its strength and muscular power. Many faults are the result of a jump drifting to the left or the right of the fence.

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Débutant

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When approaching a fence, when going over and when landing, it is necessary for one’s horse to be straight so it can use all its strength and muscular power. Many faults are the result of a jump drifting to the left or the right of the fence. Propulsion then only occurs with one hind leg. The horse twists in flight and usually lands on the same front leg. In the end the horse is physically affected and the quality of its jumps degraded.
Actually, discussing straightness brings us back to ‘bending’. To be straight, a horse must first be prepared with flat work, with suppling and muscle building on a circle. Working on a circle allows the horse to increase its strength and suppleness. Building up muscles, as well as improving the way joints work, is obtained by greater demand on the near hind leg and by stretching the horse’s off leg. You should get used to keeping the horse on the circle with your inside and outside aids. Later, you will be able to use the same aids to keep your horse straight.
When the tracks of the hind legs cover those made by the front feet, one can say that the horse is straight, whether it is moving in a circle or on a straight line.
However, a straight horse calls necessarily for a straight rider. The first image that comes to my mind is that of a tightrope walker. He keeps his balance thanks to the correct distribution of the weight of his body in relation to the tightrope he is walking. Every move he makes takes place in a perfect balance. Guided by his wide-angle vision, he is able to master each gesture, while maintaining a clear vision of the overall situation. He never looks down.
Just like the tightrope walker, the rider must be placed in a centred position on his horse: his pelvis bones in line with the horse’s median axis, the spine straight supporting the head and with wide-angle vision.

The best teacher is the mirror in the covered school. It never cheats.
Jumping a fence facing the mirror is an excellent exercise. One can also place a corridor of poles before and after the fence. After jumping the fence a few times, the rider will become aware of his attitude and position. If he is capable of controlling his horse’s shoulders and haunches in relation to the median axis of the fence and of the corridor of poles, he has succeeded.
One must always attempt to ride the approach, the fence and the landing following a straight line.
The slightest drift to the left or the right must immediately be rectified. The more one waits before reacting, the more difficult it will be to return to the axis. The mirror allows one to quickly determine the primary cause of any eventual defects in the straightness. A defect that may come from to the rider’s position, but also from a horse one has allowed to drift for too long.

straightness in landing

If a horse ‘drifts’ to the right or to the left when it jumps, rule n° 1: verify in which direction the rider is looking. Whatever the problem’s primary cause may be, looking in the right direction is a crucial parameter

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Improving the rider’s jumping position

Droits d'accès:

Abonné

Image Miniature:

Résumé listing:

How to control and frame your horse approaching and landing fences by improving your position.

Niveau de difficulté:

Intermédiaire

Goal:

Progress:

Michel stresses the importance for the rider to stay as symmetrical as possible on either side of her horse’s axis. The right side stays to the right of the horse, and the left side to his left.

Théma:

Keywords:

intermediate position

approaching a fence

straightness

landing

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